About one in three of Fall Creek’s working residents commute to Eau Claire
Jobs & income B: better than 62% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability C+: more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are higher than in 64% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 27 minutes each way (Wisconsin 22, U.S. 26). Only 8% work in Fall Creek; the top destination outside it is Eau Claire (37%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Fall Creek
Fall Creek and Eau Claire trade workers both ways
Eau Claire is the top workplace for Fall Creek residents (37%) and also where the most people who work in Fall Creek come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fall Creek workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 27 minutes each way, against 22 across Wisconsin. Over a year that’s about 207 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 591 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Fall Creek’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Fall Creek is better than 62% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Fall Creek’s grade up (7.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 43% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Fall Creek’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Fall Creek could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
37% of working residents work in Eau Claire
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Fall Creek clocks in
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 27 minutes each way, longer than most of Wisconsin
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fall Creek workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 733 commuters (the 12% who work from home are left out). Across Wisconsin: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Fall Creek quiets down on a workday
On a workday 546 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 330 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Fall Creek on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.63 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Fall Creek makes things: 29% of its jobs are in goods
375 jobs are based in Fall Creek. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fall Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fall Creek, 2013 → 2023: 440 → 375. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Half of Fall Creek commutes less than 12 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 17% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Most trips from Fall Creek start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fall Creek is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 833 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.9% of Fall Creek households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fall Creek’s commuters take a bus or train.
Fall Creek is 1,419th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Fall Creek, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Nashotah WI | 1,298 | $148K | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Wind Point WI | 1,620 | $143K | 0.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,417 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| 1,418 | Whiting WI | 1,649 | $73K | 6.5% | 2.6% | 1% | B |
| 1,419 | Fall Creek WI | 1,390 | $87K | 7.3% | 3.5% | 8% | B |
| 1,420 | Marshfield WI | 1,199 | $99K | 9.8% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,421 | Frederica DE | 1,155 | $81K | 6.5% | 3.4% | 0% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Fall Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Fall Creek?
$86,818 (±$11,766) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fall Creek?
7.3%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fall Creek?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fall Creek work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eau Claire (37%, 11 mi), Altoona (6%, 8 mi), Osseo (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fall Creek walkable?
Fall Creek is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fall Creek without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fall Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fall Creek
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.